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きょうま 10 小时以前

Valve knew about RAM crisis

I am sure they predicted it, they would never announce new hardware without analyzing market, risks and future problems
Many of you complained that "Steam machine is garbage, it's entry level PC"
We had one major argument against that: It's the steam hardware survey machine, it's better than 70% of hardware, target audience are those who have e-waste instead of PC

But now it seems to be even more logical, if Valve predicted RAM crisis they probably already made long-term contracts for RAM chips for their hardware. It's not a consumer-grade deal, so price should be different and never out of stock
Because of this Steam machine should have reasonable price comparing to future ram prices, 500$ for 32gb of RAM or 700$ for entire device capable of playing any games in FullHD on
decent settings? Hell yeah
I am sure Valve isn't that stupid to release a device without market risks evaluation

Steam machine gonna me great alternative for building an expensive PC in this crisis period, I believe

最后由きょうま编辑于; 10 小时以前

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b sweaty 10 小时以前

引用自 きょうま：
I am sure they predicted it, they would never announce new hardware without analyzing market, risks and future problems
Many of you complained that "Steam machine is garbage, it's entry level PC"
We had one major argument against that: It's the steam hardware survey machine, it's better than 70% of hardware, target audience are those who have e-waste instead of PC

But now it seems to be even more logical, if Valve predicted RAM crisis they probably already made long-term contracts for RAM chips for their hardware. It's not a consumer-grade deal, so price should be different and never out of stock
Because of this Steam machine should have reasonable price comparing to future ram prices, 500$ for 32gb of RAM or 700$ for entire device capable of playing any games in FullHD on
decent settings? Hell yeah
I am sure Valve isn't that stupid to release a device without market risks evaluation

Steam machine gonna me great alternative for building an expensive PC in this crisis period, I believe

I'll buy it for like $350

きょうま 10 小时以前

引用自 b sweaty：
I'll buy it for like $350

For $350 you can only buy AMD FX PC with 8 gigs of ram and e-waste gpu
lol

最后由きょうま编辑于; 10 小时以前

b sweaty 10 小时以前

引用自 きょうま：
引用自 b sweaty：
I'll buy it for like $350
For $350 you can only buy AMD FX PC with 8 gigs of ram and e-waste gpu
lol

it's a console though, not a PC

I'm not going to pay a lot for a console

きょうま 9 小时以前

引用自 b sweaty：
引用自 きょうま：
For $350 you can only buy AMD FX PC with 8 gigs of ram and e-waste gpu
lol

it's a console though, not a PC

I'm not going to pay a lot for a console

Literal Valve quote from announcement "It is a PC"
Bro...

Caravanserai 9 小时以前

引用自 きょうま：
引用自 b sweaty：

it's a console though, not a PC

I'm not going to pay a lot for a console

Literal Valve quote from announcement "It is a PC"
Bro...

Its not hard to pull ram out of corporate machines destined for the trash bruh skill issue

b sweaty 9 小时以前

引用自 きょうま：
引用自 b sweaty：

it's a console though, not a PC

I'm not going to pay a lot for a console

Literal Valve quote from announcement "It is a PC"
Bro...

technically anything with a processor is a PC

Tito Shivan 8 小时以前

They didn't foresee anything. they simply dimensioned the Steam machine with the most frequent hardware amongst their userbase.

最后由 Tito Shivan 编辑于; 8 小时以前

Wolfpig 8 小时以前

引用自 きょうま：
. It's not a consumer-grade deal, so price should be different and never out of stock

That is a great joke by you.
Or have you really not noticed that bigger companies then valve have problems aquiring ram too.... even with their mass contracts/the contracts which they want to renew?

nullable 6 小时以前

引用自 b sweaty：
引用自 きょうま：
For $350 you can only buy AMD FX PC with 8 gigs of ram and e-waste gpu
lol

it's a console though, not a PC

I'm not going to pay a lot for a console

No, it's a PC. The friggen Steam Machine page says its a PC. It doesn't say anything about a console. You can think whatever you want in your head cannon, but back in reality it's a prebuilt PC running Linux.

引用自 b sweaty：
引用自 きょうま：

Literal Valve quote from announcement "It is a PC"
Bro...

technically anything with a processor is a PC

From a certain point of view. But in this case it really is a PC like people mean PC's when they're talking about bog standard PC's. It's a PC, wanting it to be a "console" so you can criticize it for not utilizing console subsidized prices is a bit disingenuous. Or who knows your ignorance and assumptions might be such where you really believe it. Either way not good.

最后由 nullable 编辑于; 5 小时以前

wesnef 6 小时以前

引用自 b sweaty：
引用自 きょうま：
For $350 you can only buy AMD FX PC with 8 gigs of ram and e-waste gpu
lol

it's a console though, not a PC

I'm not going to pay a lot for a console

You do know that the actual "a consoles" cost more than that, right? And they've got much-higher economy-of-scale savings on their side.

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AmsterdamHeavy 5 小时以前

引用自 Caravanserai：
引用自 きょうま：

Literal Valve quote from announcement "It is a PC"
Bro...

Its not hard to pull ram out of corporate machines destined for the trash bruh skill issue

Thats what people are going to be buying soon, used.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

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76561198407601200 4 小时以前

引用自 きょうま：
引用自 b sweaty：

it's a console though, not a PC

I'm not going to pay a lot for a console

Literal Valve quote from announcement "It is a PC"
Bro...

Some people don't realize clark kent is just superman with glasses, same applies here "That's no pc, that's a console because (insert reasons that weren't presented)."

#12

b sweaty 4 小时以前

引用自 The Living Tribunal：
引用自 きょうま：

Literal Valve quote from announcement "It is a PC"
Bro...
Some people don't realize clark kent is just superman with glasses, same applies here "That's no pc, that's a console because (insert reasons that weren't presented)."

does it run windows?

#13

きょうま 4 小时以前

引用自 b sweaty：
引用自 The Living Tribunal：
Some people don't realize clark kent is just superman with glasses, same applies here "That's no pc, that's a console because (insert reasons that weren't presented)."

does it run windows?

Initially it runs SteamOS, but you can install Windows instead. Just insert flash drive with windows installer, format everything and install Windows. Like on any PC.

最后由きょうま编辑于; 4 小时以前

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b sweaty 3 小时以前

引用自 きょうま：
引用自 b sweaty：

does it run windows?
Initially it runs SteamOS, but you can install Windows instead. Just insert flash drive with windows installer, format everything and install Windows. Like on any PC.

so it's a console that can run windows

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